Across
- 2. The Italian explorer who headed the expedition
- 7. Payments made by one nation to ensure protection by another
- 8. A Spanish catholic community created to christianize and hispanize natives
- 9. With so many natives dead, the Spanish needed an alternative to native slave labor
- 12. Aztec emperor who reigned during the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlan
Down
- 1. A term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of Spanish or Portuguese Empires in a general sense
- 3. A region where North and South America meet, and now includes modern day countries such as Guatemala and Mexico
- 4. Land awarded to people from the King/Queen
- 5. System where people trade goods for other goods
- 6. His expedition was to find the 7-cities of gold
- 10. The original destination of the expedition
- 11. A highly contagious disease brough to the Americas by the Europeans (a lot have died from this disease)